It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.